Metro Nashville aims for another full school choice festival

6:16 PM,
Sep. 21, 2013

Shaka Mitchell

Written by

Brian Wilson
| The Tennessean

Metro Nashville school district leaders learned their lesson about venues for their First Choice Festival.

Last year, they were trying to fit more than 5,000 people into McGavock High School's gym. They'd expected only 2,000 to show up at the event, geared toward putting parents and students together with representatives of nearly every public school in the district.